Yes, and they suck now.

Generally agreed. They are also slow in common real-world driving scenarios, e.g. on twisty roads. You can't ride them at 10/10 in case you find a little patch of sand or oil as you will then die. I have been stuck behind sportbikes and superbikes in a 240SX with a stock motor a bunch of times, the motorcycles probably have 4 times the power to weight ratio but not enough traction. Also if you lose the front tire at speed you will likely die.

Aptera wants to create commuting vehicles that will be in the crush of traffic going 70+, and can lose pressure in just one tire and end up with just two left which don't naturally track straight. It's an insane proposition right on the face of it.

Yes of course, but realistic in that skimming fraud is still occurring and it is still only really viable when involving the magstrip.

If you're doing an attack it's beneficial to have it not be noticed. Also most readers I have used have two different slots- an insert and leave one for the chip, and a slide through one for the strip.

Will you show your working? I'd be very curious to see it

For the record, I bought a longer 10m cable when I got my new car to replace the old 5m cable. It cost me 120 quid back then, but I see they can be picked up for 60 quid now. This is for a 7kW capable cable.

In the UK today, petrol is about 130p per litre, so 120 quid's worth is 92 litres. A UK spec Mercedes GLA (the equivalent of my car, an EQA) gets about 42mpg. That's 9.2 miles per litre, so enough for 850 miles. The typical UK car is driven 20 miles per day, so that's enough petrol for maybe six weeks at a push. Hence why I'm curious about your working. From what I can see, Canadian gas is about 134 cents per litre today, and I'd be amazed if you drove as little as 20 miles per day or got as much as 42mpg, so I can't see how this works for you. Looks like you can get a 10m cable for somewhere between 200 and 400 Canadian dollars, so that's also in line with UK pricing.

This is such a silly little story to tell yourself, about demand being saturated, when EVs are taking an increasing market share in European markets (and others, but the story you're commenting on is about Europe). And to claim yourself as working class when you've got a nickname here of dev and you're on Slashdot is just incredibly inauthentic.

I'm sure they have smart engineers and have thought lots of this through, and have robust and well-tested systems etc. But it still seems like it's inherently hard work for not much payoff. And even the geothermal stuff seems odd; what's so much better about this solution than standard geothermal solutions.

As always, framing matters hugely. And at the moment, sinij is having a lot of success in framing stories about renewables, EVs, etc as being a challenge.

You’d never know from these stories that actually, renewables and EVs continue to be booming market sectors that continue to have lots of popular and political backing, including in Europe. For example, EV sales in Europe are substantially up this year compared to last year (1.5m+ sales so far, share of new sales up by at least 3 percentage points); Spain has committed to 95% of domestic production being EVs by 2035; the UK is announcing the clear-down of its connection backlog this week which will substantially accelerate new renewables coming onto the national grid; Pakistan has gone from a standing start to a solar share greater than China’s in four years, leading to solar generation exceeding demand at points in some industrial regions for the first time ever; and on and on.

So much good stuff is happening out there.

6 countries, of which only two have a car manufacturing industry of note... if the six were France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Czechia and some rando other, than that would be a bit different. Obvs Mertz is pushing as well, but differently and less stridently.

You're looking in the wrong place. What the Chinese have that gives them unique advantages is a better battery production system. They have lower costs to scale, innovate new battery designs (eg Blade, LFP) faster, lower costs to operate (short supply chains and local sourcing), etc etc.

Relative reductions are super and all, but the fact of the matter is that you will still die in fairly short order if you're shut in your car by a villain who runs a hose from the exhaust to your window and leave the engine running, because there's still plenty of nasties left in there. And obvs, as the other poster said, no-one's scrubbed any CO2 from the tailpipe ever.

To my mind, the first and most obvious questions to ask are how this kind of system copes with the well known challenges of working with H2, such as embrittlement, leakage and a propensity to explode.

I'm a lead programmer in the games industry, and I did not show up to meetings with low value. But that said, 50% of my time was spent on meetings and managerial duties.

Critically, I consider it my job to go to meetings so the other programmers on my team DON'T. We need to talk about the state of the game. We need to discuss mechanics and timelines and all sorts of things. But I don't want other programmers in more than a few hours of meetings a week, and most of those meeting hours should be just in our team giving and getting updates.

We were aggressive about cutting meetings that people felt had little or diminishing value. Sometimes meetings are useful for a time and then they're not. I never went to a meeting that I was invited to where I didn't feel like I needed to hear the information or present something useful. Guard your own time, no matter what level of worker you are.

But yeah, useless meetings feel terrible. I didn't feel bad about the meetings I went to because we often accomplished a lot.

Nah, the deals on used EVs are great right now; I think more people are going to start buying them up. They have low maintenance and running costs, and for around town, they're great.

There are so many goddamn F-150s on the road belonging to people that never tow a single thing or load the bed up. They're commuter cars for accountants with masculinity issues. Don't tell me that we shouldn't get these dipshits into normal cars or EVs both for the sake of the environment and road safety.

Autism is a much broader category than it used to be.

There's actually some evidence now that ADHD and Autism are on the SAME SPECTRUM, they're just different manifestations of slightly different brain wiring. For some people, it's more of an impediment, but fundamentally, the impediment is that we don't allow those people to be themselves. They might stim by flapping their hands a bit or moving around (I have ADHD, and I ALWAYS have to have something in my hands during meetings; I also 'pain stim', where I might press the tip of a paperclip against my finger. It doesn't HURT hurt and I don't break the skin, but the stimulation is something that I do basically unconciously).

Anyway, when we talk about neurodivergence, some people need little to no accommodation and some people need lots. I actually don't think having tight time limits on tests makes any sense. In my work, I get lots of time to research and figure out answers, and if I do it enough, the answers become easier to come up with. Are we trying to test whether people know things, or whether they deal with time pressure the way we think is necessary (again, for no good reason).

You gotta pay people to monitor the exams anyway, just let people have the time they need. If they get 100%, great, they know their stuff. What's the issue?

For the example in TFS of 200F water and assuming room temperature exhaust, Mr. Carnot says that the max possible efficiency is less than 20%. Any real world engine, including this one, probably ends up at a low-to-mid single digit percent efficiency. IOW, the vast majority of the heat would still be wasted.

The operator of the facility generating the waste heat might get more energy savings at lower cost by tweaking their processes to be a few percent more efficient in the first place, instead of trying to recover this low-grade energy source with an elaborate engine and plumbing.

If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.